Don’t even engage with the “wrong kind of pen” argument.
It's the equivalent to SovCits arguing that a Court is invalid because the flag has the wrong color fringe on it. The people who spout that nonsense aren't worth the effort or time to engage.
We should find out next week at APS Global if it's really a problem or a case of Physicist Sergey Frolov, the author of that quote, failing to understand what's been done.
Microsoft could be full of shit about Majorana 1 of course but it would be damned odd for them to make a claim like this without being able to back it up; the fallout would be horrendous.
Yes, however Akers Amendment from 3/6 was superseded by two other ones from Martin on 3/11 and according to local media coverage the bill that was ultimately signed into law doesn't have Akers stuff in it.
That's why I posted the full text of the legislation that was actually signed into law. There's no "amendment" or text that I can find in that legislation that matches the stuff from Akers. It looks to me like Martin successfully killed Aker's amendments on the 11th of March.
Can someone please point out where this language is because I'm not finding it and it tracking the history of this bill, found here, it appears to me that it was removed.
EAC does support Linux and there's games out there using it. It's the kernel level stuff that won't work because Linux refuses to support it, a decision I completely agree with. I don't want arshole game developers fucking around in my kernel.
How many consumer devices do you think have this exact bluetooth chip?
Hundreds of millions. They're used in an almost uncountable number of IoT devices. It's entirely possible that there's a handful of 'em, or more, in your house. Absolutely anything "smart" that uses WiFi or Bluetooth could have one including sprinkler controllers, door locks, lightbulbs, appliances both large and small, garage door openers, and remote controlled power plugs.
Espressif has sold a huge number of ESP32 chips. This isn't some uncommon no-name manufacturer or chip. It's used at scale and has been for years.
That you aren't personally aware of it only means that you have a blind spot.
What the rank and file gun owners want seems kind of irrelevant,
That an interesting viewpoint given the decades those rank and file gun owners have spent fighting an uphill battle to forestall new gun control measures while getting old ones rolled back. They've done a phenomenal job of forcing lawmakers to bend to their will.
It's sort of the point of my NRA history lesson. When gun owners decided they wouldn't tolerate any more shenanigans in their name they literally overthrew the most powerful pro gun lobby in existence and then used it to bludgeon law makers into doing what they wanted. That's about as much political power as any group of regular people can ever hope to have.
I doubt the majority of that group is going to allow themselves to be silenced over a few CEOs getting popped.
So, is your stance that a leftwing armed resistance movement shooting CEOs wouldn’t cause the right-wing gun lobby to support gun control like they used to?
No group is a monolith, especially groups numbering in the tens of millions, so of course some number of right-wing gun owners would suddenly swing to supporting gun control however those folks would be in the minority. I simply can't foresee the majority of right-wing gun owners suddenly regaining their appetite for gun control in anything less than literal decades.
With that answered what about the left-wing anti-gun lobby? Since essentially every politician to the the left of US Representative Brian Fitzpatrick has been on a decades long crusade for ever increasing gun control how would they react to more CEO shootings?
I would think that they could be liable in the same way pharmacists were for the opioid epidemic.
In the opioid epidemic the Pharmacists got into trouble because they had relationships with the manufacturers, the Doctors, and the Patients. So in this instance the best fit for your analogy is the Firearms Dealers as they are the ones who have relationships with the Manufacturers, BATFE, and the buyers.
If they can prove the manufacturers were supplying a ‘suspicious’ number of firearms to a couple of dealers...
It doesn't work like that. The sale of firearms from the Manufacturer to the Wholesaler is regulated by the Federal Government because they set the rules. In many cases the Manufacturer doesn't even know what dealer is going to end up with how many firearms or of what type. Some of them certainly do but Interstate Arms nor Smith & Wesson are not special in that regard.
Modern gun control laws started in response to black people arming themselves.
Using the word "modern" lessens the message. Gun Control has always always always been about keeping minorities from arming themselves and the racist trash are still at it today.
We're already there you just aren't noticing them because they've progressed beyond the Six Fingers / Halo Ring in the eyes level of believability.